A shortlist of four women has been drawn up as potential Labour candidates for the forthcoming Lewisham East by election to be held on 14 June. Local constituency members will chose between three Lewisham councillors, Janet Daby, Brenda Dacres and Sakina Sheikh, and Islington councillor and NEC member Claudia Webbe at a meeting scheduled for Saturday. The selection of the […]
The dust is settling on London’s local elections, and after a lot of froth and high expectations, nothing much has changed. Control of almost all of London’s councils is very much as you were. There are some changes in personnel that might signal softer changes of direction, but only two of London’s boroughs – Richmond […]
Competition over the meaning of Labour’s results on Thursday has been almost as fierce as the battle for votes itself, with the more fervent of Jeremy Corbyn’s admirers insisting that the party’s failure to hit its top two targets of Barnet and Wandsworth, and Westminster besides, masks a set of good results for the party […]
Last updated Sunday 6 May. Main points on the elections held on Thursday 3 May 2018. Labour has failed to win its top targets of Barnet and Wandsworth, and long shot hopes of victory in Westminster have not been realised either. However, the party has equaled its record of having majorities on 21 of the capital’s 32 borough councils, set in […]
Predicting the outcomes of elections (or referendums) has been a mug’s game in recent years, with a succession of outcomes failing to match expectations formed from what appeared to be solid prior evidence. With today’s elections to London’s 32 borough councils, the case for caution is particularly persuasive: London-wide opinion polling on these contests can be […]
High Barnet ward is at the high end of Barnet borough: villagey, churchy and sharing a border with Hertfordshire. It returned three Conservative councillors in 2014, and you would think it had a soul of solid blue. But here’s what Lewis Baston writes about the ward in the On London Borough Elections Guide 2018: It is the […]
It is no wonder that many of the capital’s Conservatives are anticipating 3 May with dread. So much of the evidence points to them heading for a dreadful drubbing at the borough elections you couldn’t blame them for taking refuge in Essex for a few weeks or else beneath a very thick duvet. Labour presently has majorities in […]
Protesters were out in force in Walthamstow Central recently, opposing the redevelopment of The Mall shopping centre and a portion of the adjacent Town Square and Gardens by retail investors Capital & Regional. Opponents of the scheme claim the land is being sold to C&R, “to build shops and luxury flats with zero per cent […]
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